The Philadelphia Experiment - classic 80's flick at the Select Theater!
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The Philadelphia Experiment - classic 80's flick at the Select Theater!

In 1943, a top-secret experiment aboard a Navy destroyer backfires and two sailors are propelled to 1984.

By The Historic Select Theater

Date and time

Thursday, May 2 · 8 - 9:30pm CDT

Location

The Historic Select Theater 114 North Johnson Street, Mineola, Texas 75773

114 North Johnson Street Mineola, TX 75773

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  • 1 hour 30 minutes

It's time for some time traveling 1980's action with this classic film..."The Philadelphia Experiment"!

In 1943, a top-secret experiment aboard a Navy destroyer backfires and two sailors are propelled to 1984.

The Philadelphia Experiment takes as its jumping-off point an incident that is now paranormal legend, the U.S. Navy's supposed 1943 induction of an extremely powerful electromagnetic field around a destroyer in Philadelphia, causing its crew to become transparent, go insane, burst into flames, and so forth. The movie takes the tack that this was to render the ship invisible to radar, because of the war that was on. The test goes awry, however, and two of the crew leap forward in time to the filmmakers' present tense, 1984, where a similar experiment has caused a vortex that has trapped the 1943 ship and its crew along with a small Nevada town. The key to unbollixing this sad time-fracture lies in our heroes, the two time-travelling crew members, David Herdeg (Michael Paré) and Jim Parker (Bobby Di Cicco), whose electromagnetic instability keeps drawing them painfully back to the vortex to set things straight.


NOTE - You can buy a ticket for just this film for $6 OR you can pay $8 and get a double feature combo ticket and see "My Science Project" before this one at 6PM!

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The Historic Select Theater

As one of the oldest continuously operating theaters in Texas, the Historic Select Theater located at 114 N. Johnson St. is a true Texas (and Mineola) treasure.

Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hooks opened the Theater as a movie house in 1920, and the building retains much of its historical style and ambiance today.

In 1978, a group of actors determined to bring live theater to the Lake Country area formed the Lake Country Playhouse. They purchased the Theater in 1993, ensuring that Mineola would continue to have a movie theater and a venue for live theatrical and musical productions.

The Playhouse produces four live plays each year one in each season and shows first run movies each weekend.

Patrons especially love the summer musicals and popular Christmas shows. The Theater is also home to the Lake Country Symphonic Band (formally the Wood County Orchestra), which presents four scheduled performances during the year.

Lake Country Playhouse is a non-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. All donations to Lake Country Playhouse are deductible.

The mission of Lake Country Playhouse is to promote the Arts in East Texas, and to provide a home for Performing Arts at its facility, the Historic Select Theater. Additionally, Lake Country Playhouse will maintain and operate the Select Theater as a historical treasure by continuing to show motion pictures in the longest continuous-operating movie theater in Texas.